  RallyBah HumbugPremium
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Astoria, NY | Wow Going to implement this type of service, while caps are on their horizon. How brolly these companies have become. | |
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 | | | Re: Wow Maybe AT&T will make this service immune to the bandwidth caps in an effort to drive traffic to these sites, and hence make more money in ad revenue? | |
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| | | | Re: Wow I'm sure they'd like to, but I just don't see them getting away with that. | |
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| | | | | Re: Wow Not to mention it would undermine their argument for caps.
Seems to me they're going too fast with the Death Star rebuild. They just don't have all of the pieces in place to avoid consumer backlash.
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| | | | | | Re: Wow They need to warm consumers to the idea that metered billing is necessary first. They can use it as an anti-competitive weapon later when HD Internet video really takes off. It's all pre-emptive. | |
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| | | | | | said by S_engineer:Not to mention it would undermine their argument for caps. Seems to me they're going too fast with the Death Star rebuild. They just don't have all of the pieces in place to avoid consumer backlash. I find your lack of faith disturbing. The Emperor is not pleased with your efforts. He will be coming soon. Double your efforts. I'm not as forgiving as he is. -Darth Vader
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Valencia, CA | I'm sure they'll find a way....
They 'could' to this by having the 'content provider' (aka themselves or a contracted company) pay them for the 'right' to deploy their video services. In turn, there would have to be a tracking mechanism to rollback the consumption of data used by their service.
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Suffern, NY | said by Karl Bode:I'm sure they'd like to, but I just don't see them getting away with that. Any attempt to do this will raise the Network Neutrality Red Flag. In this case, they are giving preferred service to their offering due to not charging Bandwidth Usage to the user's Cap Account (instead of the usual "Pay Us and you will get better QoS" scenario). | |
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| | | | | | Re: Wow said by RARPSL:said by Karl Bode:I'm sure they'd like to, but I just don't see them getting away with that. Any attempt to do this will raise the Network Neutrality Red Flag. In this case, they are giving preferred service to their offering due to not charging Bandwidth Usage to the user's Cap Account (instead of the usual "Pay Us and you will get better QoS" scenario). I don't think they care about their appearance, there too many red flags out there now for this one to matter. The same preffered status would cause just as many red flags. These services are fast becoming like insurance companies where all they have to do is advertise their product, not deliver. Cherry pick the clientele, and make the consumer jump through hoops just to use the product. And if they bill you wrong, well you better pay it or like Sprint, they might just dump you as a customer for complaining. God help anyone that actually holds a company to what they advertise! | |
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| I'm Just Waiting for 3-min HD ads on AT&T's Homepage Of course unsuspecting people who run the AT&T's rebranded browser will go there automatically when they go on the internet. I can also see them making the ad non-removable, so anytime anybody goes for support on their website, you are forced to view the HD content. Of course, it would be our fault for going over the caps because we are such bandwidth hogs. | |
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kudos:5 | Ought to be the "Let's Create a Conflict of Interest" Dept. I love stuff like this.
On one hand, if they behave themselves and don't give it any special preference, then no harm no foul. On the other, aside from disclosing everything about the servers, software, and network (including configurations), there's no way to be completely sure that they're playing fairly.
I wish we could stop the madness somehow.
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| | | Re: Ought to be the "Let's Create a Conflict of Interest" Dept. said by funchords:I love stuff like this. On one hand, if they behave themselves and don't give it any special preference, then no harm no foul. On the other, aside from disclosing everything about the servers, software, and network (including configurations), there's no way to be completely sure that they're playing fairly. I wish we could stop the madness somehow. They have a "conflict of interest" dept. It's called the legal department, or PR dept. Pick your poison.
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| | not very impressed I just took a look at the site and I must say I wasn't very impressed. The faux-Windows effects and the garish color scheme was definitely an eye-assaulting experience.
And what's more, Google already does this, while still maintaining a UI that doesn't assault you. Hopefully this site goes the way of most ISP portals, to the wayside.
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